Cursitors
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Stimson (1881)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Clerks in the chancery office, whose duties consisted in drawing up those writs which were of coarse, de cursu, whence their name. They were abolished by St. 5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 82. Spence, Eq. Jur. 238 ; 4 Inst. 82.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Clerks in the chancery of- CURTIS. A garden; a space about a fice, whose duties consisted in drawing up house; a house, or manor; a court, or palace;
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Clerks of chancery, whose duties were to make out the original writs, or writs de cnrsu.